The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) There was a rare treat for silent movie fans on the 15th of March this year when Dublin’s beautiful St. Patrick’s Cathedral hosted a rare screening and live score performance of Rex Ingram’s majestic 1921 classic of the cinema, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Now, it isn’t quite accurate to describe Rex Ingram as a ‘forgotten film director’. Certainly, those of us who love the...
Game Night (2018)
Game Night Written by Mark Perez and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, Game Night is a wonderful, fast moving and very funny dark comedy-cum-thriller. It just sneaks up on you and offers a refreshing antidote to the overrated, pretentious Oscar-winner The Shape of Water. In fact, it mercifully wipes out the bad taste left by that nonsense. Right from the delightful opening scenes where we see...
Stephen King’s The Dark Half
Summoning Demons: Revisiting Stephen King’s The Dark Half “Kull meditated a while, then spoke. ‘Can you summon up demons?’ “’Aye. I can summon up a demon more savage than any in ghostland – by smiting you on the face.’” –Robert E. Howard, The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune Fittingly for a novel that deals so obsessively with the subject of twins, doubling and mirror images, Stephen King’s 1989 novel The Dark Half is...
The Shape of Water (2018)
The Fish is Off: The Shape of Water (2018) Well, I knew it was about the interspecies love between a woman and a sea creature from the South American lagoons. And yet nothing quite prepared me for that…shall we say, interesting plot development half-way through. Nor was I ready for the way that Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) prepares herself for her day’s work as a cleaner at a *ahem* top-secret government facility in the...
Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther (2018) If ever there was a film that was going to be as bullet-proof as the Black Panther’s suit then it was this one. The time is as right as it ever could be for releasing the first superhero film with an African-American lead (except that it’s not really the first) and it seems to be by general consensus – even before the film’s release – that if you don’t hail Black Panther as a seminal, groundbreaking...
View from the Madhouse: Revisiting Stephen King’s Misery
View from the Madhouse: Revisiting Stephen King’s Misery Loosely sandwiched in between two novels with truly enormous casts – It and The Tommyknockers – King’s 1987 Misery was a stripped-to-the-bone two-hander. Yes, there really are only two people featured over the 350-odd pages. One is writer Paul Sheldon — famous for his money-spinning bodice-rippers starring heroine Misery Chastain. The other is his isolated,...
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